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Me watching the news
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1. The Foyer
A gentleman arrives at the manor. He is being greeted by the manor’s butler who is about to escort him upstairs. The gentleman arrives after lunchtime; he is not here to feast but picks the time when all the family members visit for the holiday.
Age verification laws are really just censorship mandates clothed as child safety proposals—here’s why. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control
The #1stproof team (that I am not involved in, though I support their efforts) have announced the preliminary details of their "second batch" challenge, with a more structured assessment procedure, and request for community input: https://1stproof.org/documents/First_Proof_March_14_Announcement.pdf
My first reaction to DLSS5 can be summarized as “🤮”. So now this completely discards artistic intent, and replaces all game characters with fake instagram influencers?
Is it just me?
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/dlss5-breakthrough-in-visual-fidelity-for-games/
"coffeehouse scum" is my tribal identification.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hlts6aypn5isyf24pkvgzmqt/post/3mh7a56345k2i
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FFmpeg 8.1 Released With Experimental xHE-AAC MPS212, More Vulkan Acceleration
FFmpeg 8.1 is out today as the newest stable release of this widely-used, open-source multimedia library...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-8.1-Released
LOOKING FOR OLD ANDROID SMARTPHONES 📱📱📱
For educational workshops about technology and Internet,
I'm looking for old/retired Android smartphones that I'm willing to purchase for cheap.
- Do you have a old smartphone...
- in #brussels, #bxl
- Android only
- from 2014-2022
- hidden in a drawer
- the battery / screen is damaged (but still boots up)
... that you'd be willing to gift / sell for cheap?
If yes »»» 📩📩 marie@verdeil.net
Logic Board Comparison
MacBook Neo
M3 MacBook Air
iPhone 16
Source: https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-repairable-macbook-in-14-years
I think people put their websites behind cloudflare for the same reason a startup with like seven customers uses kubernetes and AWS or whatever instead of a raspberry pi in the closet: they're fucking ignorant, and have no understanding of the kind of scale those things are needed for.
Look at this cute chonk! I just received my purple #mntpocketreform from 
@mntmnminute and its awesome. As open source as a laptop can probably get (down to firmware and hardware schematics!!) and built so well that I'm afraid I might damage the floor if I ever drop it.
I truly don’t understand vibe coders; I can’t bear the idea of letting the first pass junk that I got out of this stand as something with my name on it.
Did it get me a good start? Yes. Did I need to revise everything from the design and docs through the naming and implementation? Also yes.
Speed at the cost of quality: Study of use of Cursor AI in open source projects
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04427
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47401734
Today version 1.0.9 of #ManfredApp (a #MastodonClient for #iOS, #iPadOS and #macOS) was released bringing you the following features:
- support for displaying quoted statuses
- auto-reload after posting a reply
- an option to disable animated avatars.
- some bug fixes.
Thank you for your feedback, especially to Markus Opitz for highlighting issues with quoted posts.
🏳️⚧️ Looking for: Movies featuring, about, or made by trans people
They can feature a trans character/be about a trans person, a trans actor, or are written/produced/directed by a trans person.
They can also be popularly-theorized to be transgender, such as Gwen Stacy in Into the Spider-Verse. (Note: "popular," here, means "made it into a news article")
They can be in any language, and they can be short films.
I'll take any genre, including historical, musicals/stage plays, and documentary/docudrama (regardless of their quality).
I don't want any PragerU bullshit (using our genuine, real-life stories as Conservative propaganda). Other than that, I'll take any quality of movie/writing/depiction. (So, something like She's The Man or Emelia Perez would be okay under this ruleset, despite them both being, y'know, bad movies)
Off the cuff, we already have:
(We also have Twin Peaks, and the Spider-Verse movies)
(i also have Tron, and have A Clockwork Orange on my to-do list, so Wendy Carlos gets in here too)
My purpose for this is to make use of an external HDD, in order to have a dedicated backup.
Even school kids know that passing off something AI generated as your own work is lying, cheating, and also means you're not learning. #WhatILeanedTodayAtFOSSBackStage
I have a lot of cranky old-man gripes about AI but I think one of my crankiest is the loss of personality in code. Cracking open a new code base is always a delight. Experienced engineers have different styles that I always learn things from. In the future I see nothing but a sea of averaged boringness. You can't stop what's coming.
Zapp: There's only one surefire way back into a woman's heart and
parts beyond. I speak, of course, of Karaoke.
Beautiful man pages on #OpenBSD with bat 🐱
$ doas pkg_add bat
$ man pf.conf | bat -pl man
Misty
Simon Ser
wakest ⁂
🗡 
Jan Lehnardt 
Stefano Marinelli
.kshrc to do exactly that.# coloured man pages
man() {
sh -c "man '$@' | col -bx | bat -l man"
}
Beautiful man pages on #OpenBSD with bat 🐱
$ doas pkg_add bat
$ man pf.conf | bat -pl man
Today's #DecemberAdventure in March was writing a little brainf*ck interpreter in ilo assembly.
Log @ https://charles.childe.rs/DA2026-March.txt and code @ https://charles.childe.rs/DA2026-BrainDead.pali
RE: https://mastodon.design/@rhubarbe/116240392974077638
I made the new logo for Vinyl Cache! 😊
Trying to wring some useful insights out of the roiling AI discourse: today I want to talk a little bit about Senior Engineer Essentialism. As with many AI Coding things, this is not a *new* problem, but it is now a *worse* problem.
According to my hazy recollection, circa 2012 we started seeing a rash of forgettable blog posts about "what it really means to be a senior software engineer".
There is no such thing as a senior software engineer. 🧵
@glyph my title got unexpectedly upgraded to ‘senior’ when I started at my current employer, after trying and failing to get promoted at the previous job. I’ve got ~10 years more experience than some coworkers who had the title before I did. But they had several years more experience with parts of the tech stack (and conversely I’ve done a bunch of other stuff that not everyone else has, which is useful too).
It’s at least taught me not to set too much store by the adjective, anyway.
@silverpill found an unusual bug. if i set up mitra to listen on a unix domain socket and then try to access it via tor, I won't be able to log in. error log: Could not extract real IP address from request
Zapp: There's only one surefire way back into a woman's heart and
parts beyond. I speak, of course, of Karaoke.
How does one celebrate a fediverse?!
RheEnergise is storing #electricity generated by renewables by pumping High-Density Fluid to a high reservoir, then releasing it to generate energy later. Their pilot project has reached a peak power production of 500 kilowatts. https://spectrum.ieee.org/pumped-hydro-storage-rheenergise?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
@fsfFree Software Foundation Epson makes a series of printers that are popular in Latin America. They have refillable ink tanks, and are color ink-jet printers, allowing a user to, with periodic maintenance, print indefinitely. I have one, and I love it. I also recently found how to "hack" my second-hand brother color laser printer by accessing the "hidden" menu and resetting the page counter. I like the article, and I agree that pushback from we, the people, can make a difference in the abusive, anti-consumer big-tech behavior.
Even school kids know that passing off something AI generated as your own work is lying, cheating, and also means you're not learning. #WhatILeanedTodayAtFOSSBackStage
youtu.be/TfceT7k9o-M?... 이당시에도 생산성을 급격하게 올릴수 있는 기계 도입이 이슈였고 엔지니어 분들(?)의 처우개선과 합리적인 노동 환경 설정이 요구사항이었지만 배드엔딩 (..)
러다이트 운동은 정말 시대착오적 운동이었을까?
DLSS 5 looks like gen AI for video games. Grace looks totally different with DLSS 5
I gotta say, a lot of these anti-queer alpha male types seem _pretty_ gay for Jesus.
A photo for #MonochromeMonday, and also #LunesLiminal, since it seems like that should be a thing as well.
AIの話 (支離滅裂？)
AIは万能ではないんだけどかといって僕がAIに頼りきりじゃないとも言えない問題がある (そもそもコーディング能力自体がAIも使って覚えている側面があるし、コーディングに関してはそのせいで実力がよくわからない)
The return-to-the-office trend backfires
Link: https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/5775420-remote-first-productivity-growth/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402651
■LNGの専門家だけど、今後日本で起こりうる最悪の展開について書く
「貿易関係の増田が現状をまとめてくれてたので（anond:20260313174445）、自分はもう少し踏み込んで「今後50%くらいの確率で起こりうる最悪の展開」について書いてみる。電力・ガス関係の仕事をしている立場から。
先に言っておくと、これは「確実に起こる」話ではない。ただし「起こってもおかしくない」話だ。
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116239395175554368
So yeah. I am kinda looking for a new job that allows me to make our digital world meaningfully better. If you have any leads or thoughts, ping me.
If a company changes a policy after you buy it, you should be allowed a full refund if desired. I am so tired of companies constantly changing rules. The rules that were in place when you bought the product should remain in place. New rules for new buyers.
The "I accept" is never a choice, it's accept or lose access to this thing you bought and supported.
🤨Lazycut: A simple terminal video trimmer using FFmpeg
Link: https://github.com/emin-ozata/lazycut
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397857
Foundation Modelsでいいのは構造化出力が安定してて早いことだねえ。
SparklingOutlaw🍉
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